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Dubin is heavy, careless, good-natured, writes a lyric on any old scrap of paper. He cheerfully recalls the days when he peddled his verses for $10 to $15 apiece, finally gained recognition with Just a Girl That Men Forget (1923). Hollywood salaries have tempted many of its songwriters to become "country gentlemen," raise blooded roosters, olive trees, avocados. Dubin recently bought an elaborate estate in San Fernando Valley where he still chews tobacco, sucks his corncob pipe...
...girl when Leap Year arrives and she knows she must ask one or the other for good and all. With intense symbolism he reduces all humanity into one molten mass and pours the whole over the stones that obstruct the way of this simple girl. In passages of lyric beauty he describes the tender scenes on the bench before the ivy covered library, and with equal power, the metropolitan night life that the heroine finds in the company of the irrepressible Reggie. The conclusion is the only possible one for such a situation and Osten presents it steruly, fiercely, intensely...
...cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...
Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy antics and plot convolutions, and set to impudent, lighthearted music. Some of it is music worn thin by 1935's dancing slippers, but some good new ones have been added: Sailor Beware, Moonburn, My Heart...
...wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly tender lyric, "Detached," indicates that she writes best when she is wholeheartedly sentimental or wholeheartedly mean...